On March 9, President Biden signed into law a bill, H.R. 4366, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, which funds almost half of all Federal agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau, through the end of Fiscal Year 2024, which concludes on September 30.
The bill provides the Census Bureau with $1.382 billion, an amount approximately $28 million above the level recommended by the House Appropriations Committee and approximately $120 million below the amount recommended by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The final funding figure is about $220 million below what President Biden had requested in his Fiscal Year 2024 budget and well below the $2 billion that census stakeholders had urged Congress to provide.
In an explanatory statement accompanying the bill, Congress included the following provisions:
- Cyber Vulnerabilities-The agreement directs the Census Bureau to prioritize cyber protections and high standards of data differential privacy, while also maintaining the accuracy of the data. The Census Bureau is expected to keep the Committees updated on these efforts.
- Population Estimate Challenge Program-The agreement provides up to $6,200,000 to support the Population Estimates program and to improve the annual estimates upon which communities across the country rely.
- Ask US. Panel Survey-The Census Bureau is directed to provide a report to the Committees, not later than 90 days after enactment of this act, on the Ask U.S. Panel Survey’s methodology, data collection processes, implementation, incurred and projected costs, procurement strategy, and plans to address any recommendations made by the Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Prior to passage of the bill in the U.S. Senate, Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) offered an amendment that would have authorized a citizenship question on the decennial census and excluded non-citizens from apportionment counts. The amendment was rejected by a roll call vote of 45-51.
Now that the Bureau�s final FY 2024 funding level is set, census stakeholders and policymakers alike look forward to hearing how the agency plans to work with its allotment in the remaining months of the current fiscal year.
Census Bureau Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Resolved and Signed Into Law
On March 9, President Biden signed into law a bill, H.R. 4366, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, which funds almost half of all Federal agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau, through the end of Fiscal Year 2024, which concludes on September 30.
The bill provides the Census Bureau with $1.382 billion, an amount approximately $28 million above the level recommended by the House Appropriations Committee and approximately $120 million below the amount recommended by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The final funding figure is about $220 million below what President Biden had requested in his Fiscal Year 2024 budget and well below the $2 billion that census stakeholders had urged Congress to provide.
In an explanatory statement accompanying the bill, Congress included the following provisions:
- Cyber Vulnerabilities-The agreement directs the Census Bureau to prioritize cyber protections and high standards of data differential privacy, while also maintaining the accuracy of the data. The Census Bureau is expected to keep the Committees updated on these efforts.
- Population Estimate Challenge Program-The agreement provides up to $6,200,000 to support the Population Estimates program and to improve the annual estimates upon which communities across the country rely.
- Ask US. Panel Survey-The Census Bureau is directed to provide a report to the Committees, not later than 90 days after enactment of this act, on the Ask U.S. Panel Survey’s methodology, data collection processes, implementation, incurred and projected costs, procurement strategy, and plans to address any recommendations made by the Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Prior to passage of the bill in the U.S. Senate, Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) offered an amendment that would have authorized a citizenship question on the decennial census and excluded non-citizens from apportionment counts. The amendment was rejected by a roll call vote of 45-51.
Now that the Bureau�s final FY 2024 funding level is set, census stakeholders and policymakers alike look forward to hearing how the agency plans to work with its allotment in the remaining months of the current fiscal year.
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